Feeding apparatus for gas-producers.



L. LEE.

FEEDING APPARATUS FOR GAS PRODUCERS. APPLIoATloN FILED JAN. 9, 19117.

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L' PEBDING APPARATUS FOR GAs'PRoDUcBRs.

APPLICATION FILED. JAN. 9, 191.1l 992,431 yPatented-May'16,1911.

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UNITED sTAirns 1r f table measuring device, each rotating on a a layerof uniform depth.

trough 4 constitutes a track for the wheels The opening 9 is located atone side of the LEIF LEE.v or ritgsrowit'onio l FEEDING APPARATUS FORGAS-IPRODUt'IlRSv Application led January 9,

To all whom it may concern: i Be it known that l, LEIF Lne. a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Youngstown. in the county of Mahoning andState of Ohio, have invented new and useful lmprovements in FeedingApparatus for Gas- Produ'cers and the Like.

My invention relates to fuel-feeding devices for delivering. measuredquantities of fuel uniformly around the center of a gasproducer orequivalent.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a rotatable hopperwith a rotavertical axis and at different angular speeds.` so that aseries of measured quantities ot fuel may be deposited inditferentpositions around the center of the producer to form Referringto the accompanying sheets of drawings which illustrate the preferredform of my invention, Figure 1 is a central Vertical section of'the-upper portion of a gas-producer, parts being shown in elevation;Fig. 2 a horizontal section taken on Fig. 1 above the ho per, theframe-work being omitted; and Fig. 3, a plan of the rotary measuringdevice.

On the drawings, 1 designates the inclosing wall of a gas-producer orthe like, having thereon the top plate 2 with the central circularopening 3, through which fuel is discharged into the producer. Theopening 3 is surrounded by the annular water trough 4. The outer wall orside of the 5, which support thefuel-feeding device, having at theupper. end 'a chute-like receptacle 6 for fuel, the sides of thereceptacle being shaped so as to conduct the fuel to one side of theaxis of the hopper where a wedge-like horizontal discharge-opening 7 isarranged to deliver fuel -to the rotary measuring device 8, which inturn delivers the fuel to the discharge opening 9 in the cover 22 whichcovers the opening 3 and has a circular flange in the water trough 4.The cover 22 isrigidly connected to the hopper 6 so that they rotate ina fixed relation.

center of the cover so as to discharge material through the. opening 3into the producer. The opening 9 should not be in vertical alinementwith the opening 7.. These openings are shown 180 apart, but they may bearranged differently.

Speeiticaton of Letters Patent. Patel] 1 Hl`he. .measuring dem ce diskprovidedy with.

The said axis-f rotatie!) I centralopening tea May iii-i i 191,1. serialiro.- 601, ,y

opening 21` arrangw l", spect to they axls of rot vertical shaft 11i;

' up through the axialf n A, H iqppgi; t3, and hasits upper end"priiiided"'wiftli the spur-gear llgearing with the pinion 11 on theshaft 15 parallel with the shaft 11. 'lhe shaft 15 carries the pinion 16which meshewit'h the peripheral teeth 17 on thev hopper G. The shaft 15carries also the worm wheel 1o' meshing with the worin 19 on the .shaft20, which is driven in any suitable manner. The shaft 11 is secured bythe cross-pin 2U' extending through the'shaft 11 and the hub of thediskl 8, which has its bottoni cored out 1.3 as shown on Fig. 3 andbelow the opening T on Fig. 1. v

The disk 8 is shown with a si 'Iglo measuring opening 21 which extendstn'rough'the disk from one face to the other. k.lfVhen the measuringopening 21 is beneath 'the hopperopening'?, fuel drops into the openinn'21A and is-supported by the cover 22 in which the aforesaid opening 9Ais located. \Vhen`-, the dislrS is rotated so that the openings l? 185and 21 register, the fuel in the opening- 21. falls through the opening9 and into the chamber 23 of the producer. lhe opening 21 has its sidesdefinedv by radii of the disk, thereby causing the fuel therein to havea w. ge-like shape with the narrow part nearest the center of the disk.This shape of the opening 21, the opening 9 having substantially thesame shape, causesinore fuel to be deposited at the outer portions ofthe chamber than at the central portions, thereby depositing the fuel inthe chamber in a substantially even manner from circumference to center.The shapeof the openings may be variously shaped so as to distribute thefnelas desired.

I have .shown the hopper (3 and the disk 8 (ih icli am i `rotatable inthe saine direction, but with the ber of tirnes at diii'erent angularvdistances from any given position ofthe said openings' "before theseopenings 'again assume the said given position,iv each deposit of fuelbeing l dropped the same langular distance from 4the may be madewithoutjdeparting from the gistofmy; invention. Itis clear that myimprovementsmay be' employed for feeding charges to furnaces or otherapparatus.

. I claim-l ina gas-producer orthe like, a topl havingan opening, avrotatable gas-seal cover therefor, having a discharge opening ar- Iranged to deliver material through the opento the said cover and, havinga discharge opening out of vertical alinenient with the opening in thecover, a horizontally rotatable diskV located'between the hopper and thecover and provided with one or more measuring pockets arranged tov bebrought; into register alternately with the discharge openings in thehopper and the cover, means for-rotating thehopper and the COVGI, andmeans for independently rotating the meas9 uring device.

Signed at of'January, A. D.. 1911. LEIF LEE.

. Witnesses:

JOHN C; CASEY,

J. F. KING.

Yoiingstown, O'hiothis 5th clay

